A couple of weeks ago, I came across a fresh World Bank working paper (Doemeland & Trevino 2014) that examined downloads and citations for World Bank policy reports. The paper reports that 31 percent of policy reports have never been downloaded and 87 percent have never been cited.

As part of a new series looking how institutions are approaching impact evaluation, DI virtually sat down with Nick York, Head of Evaluation and Gail Marzetti, Deputy Head, Research and Evidence Division. For Part I of this series, see yesterday’s post. Today we focus on DFID’s funding for research and impact evaluation.